Ok, so, we won’t even start the whole conversation about how expensive this city is, or the fact that California has more billionaires than every country other than the U.S. and China, and that San Francisco and Silicon Valley are home to a majority of them. Many of these billionaires reside in ritzy places like Woodside, Palo Alto, and Atherton, but a good number of them also like to have a house or two in San Francisco (why not?!). And yes, the city even has a “Billionaires Row” (on Broadway, near the Lyon Street stairs). So, here they are: some of the richest people in San Francisco and how they’ve made their dough.
- Larry Ellison: Co-Founder and CEO of Oracle
Wikimedia Commons Though his main residence is in the elite Silicon Valley suburb of Woodside, the co-founder of Oracle—a multifaceted computer tech corporation—also has a cozy place along San Francisco’s Billionaires Row.
- Mark Zuckerberg: Co-Founder & CEO of Facebook
Wikimedia Commons While his main residence is in Palo Alto, social media’s head honcho upset several future San Francisco neighbors during the lengthy, noisy (and parking-spot-stealing) renovation of his new abode located a few blocks from Dolores Park. Of course, we all learned about the neighborhood squabble via Facebook.
- Dustin Moskovitz: Co-Founder of Facebook & Founder of Asana
Wikimedia Commons Zuckerberg’s former Harvard roommate is still making $$$ with stock in Facebook, but he’s adding to the pile as the founder of software firm Asana.
- Doris Fisher: Co-Founder of Gap
Flickr/Viva Vivanista One of the most successful self-made female billionaires, she co-founded the clothing chain Gap with her husband in 1969. It’s now a household name and so is its other brands, including Old Navy, Athleta, and Banana Republic.
- Evan Williams: Co-Founder of Twitter and Medium
Wikimedia Commons He can be credited with inventing the term “blogger” after creating one of the first blog-publishing services (Blogger). He’d go on to co-found Twitter and, in 2012, the publishing platform Medium.
- Jack Dorsey: Co-Founder of Twitter and Square
Wikimedia Commons The other techie to give us Twitter is also the founder and CEO of mobile payments company Square.
- Brian Chesky: Co-Founder and CEO of Airbnb
Wikimedia Commons Chesky, along with his former roommate Joe Gebbia and buddy Nathan Blecharczyk, changed the way many of us travel by founding the global online enterprise Airbnb.
- Marc Benioff: Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Salesforce
Wikimedia Commons Before he founded cloud-computing company Salesforce from his little rented San Francisco apartment back in 1999, Benioff worked alongside #1 on this list, Oracle’s Larry Ellison, for several years. Clearly, he can do just fine on his own, though.
- Travis Kalanick: CEO and Co-Founder of Uber and Red Swoosh
Wikimedia Commons He was a UCLA dropout before starting the peer-to-peer file-sharing company Swoosh. In 2009, he founded Uber, vexing taxi drivers the world over but making it so much easier for the rest of us to get around town.
- Garrett Camp: Co-Founder of Uber and StumpleUpon, Startup Investor
Wikimedia Commons This Canadian techie first co-founded the web-discovery platform and personalized recommendation engine StumbleUpon before joining forces with Kananick to revolutionize the idea of ride-sharing.
And this isn’t even all of the billionaires taking up space in San Francisco: You can also add the founder and chairman of Dolby Laboratories Dagmar Dolby, venture capitalist and heir to the Getty Oil Gordon Getty, and the heir and chairman of the largest construction and civil engineering company in the U.S. (Bechtel Corporation) Bechtel, among others. So, let us know: what do you think about the richest people in San Francisco? Are they improving our great city or just expanding the ever greater gap between the rich and the rest of us?
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Though his main residence is in the elite Silicon Valley suburb of Woodside, the co-founder of Oracle—a multifaceted computer tech corporation—also has a cozy place along San Francisco’s Billionaires Row.
While his main residence is in Palo Alto, social media’s head honcho upset several future San Francisco neighbors during the lengthy, noisy (and parking-spot-stealing) renovation of his new abode located a few blocks from Dolores Park. Of course, we all learned about the neighborhood squabble via Facebook.
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Zuckerberg’s former Harvard roommate is still making $$$ with stock in Facebook, but he’s adding to the pile as the founder of software firm Asana.
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One of the most successful self-made female billionaires, she co-founded the clothing chain Gap with her husband in 1969. It’s now a household name and so is its other brands, including Old Navy, Athleta, and Banana Republic.
He can be credited with inventing the term “blogger” after creating one of the first blog-publishing services (Blogger). He’d go on to co-found Twitter and, in 2012, the publishing platform Medium.
The other techie to give us Twitter is also the founder and CEO of mobile payments company Square.
Chesky, along with his former roommate Joe Gebbia and buddy Nathan Blecharczyk, changed the way many of us travel by founding the global online enterprise Airbnb.
Before he founded cloud-computing company Salesforce from his little rented San Francisco apartment back in 1999, Benioff worked alongside #1 on this list, Oracle’s Larry Ellison, for several years. Clearly, he can do just fine on his own, though.
He was a UCLA dropout before starting the peer-to-peer file-sharing company Swoosh. In 2009, he founded Uber, vexing taxi drivers the world over but making it so much easier for the rest of us to get around town.
This Canadian techie first co-founded the web-discovery platform and personalized recommendation engine StumbleUpon before joining forces with Kananick to revolutionize the idea of ride-sharing.
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